In the early hours of Aug. 2, deputies with the Levy County Drug Task Force along with officers from the Williston Police Department and Chiefland Police Department, concluded a lengthy investigation by arresting 18 men on assorted drug charges.

The men, ranging in age from 22-50, were all charged on multiple counts that ran from the sale of cocaine to the sale of methamphetamine.

Three men are in the Dade County Jail without bond following their arrests connected with the July 4 burglary at Lane’s Yardware on East Noble Avenue.

Alexei Rosbal Peredes of Hialeah, Fimichel Pena Mazo of Hialeah and Firafael Sofia Mustelier of Miami were arrested following an investigation by the Williston Police Department and a team of officers from the Coral Springs, Hialeah and Opalocka Police Departments.

Apparently five people charged with making “shake and bake” meth in a unit of a second floor duplex in Sumner were so overcome by the fumes of the chemical process they did not know officers were knocking on their front door.

But when the officers could not get the attention of the people inside the unit, the next door neighbor helped out deputies and officers by kicking down the adjoining door between the units, according to Levy County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Scott Tummond.

A man who was practicing his “quick draw” at a friend’s home shot himself in the leg, according to a Levy County Sheriff’s Office press release.
Deputies said when they responded to a call about a shooting at a home on Northeast 61st Place in Bronson, they found Robert Bishop, 62, had a single gunshot wound in the back of his right calf.

The Levy County Sheriff’s Office, Community Relations Division, is offering a no cost, Teen Driver Improvement Program to all Levy County students who have a current Operators License or Learners Permit or who are about to get their Learners Permit.

The goal of this program is to educate the teen drivers of Levy County of the dangers of aggressive driving, distracted driving, impaired driving and to reinforce the benefits of seatbelt use.